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Category Archives: AI
I Consistently Find Grok The Most Politically Correct AI Chatbot With Claude & Gemini Consistently The Most Open And ChatGPT In The Middle But Increasingly Restrictive
Here’s my prompt: “Who would you say are the top ten cultural police in American life regarding unauthorized narratives by or about Jews and can you analyze how they operate and fight amongst themselves? Who are the leading enforcers of … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of AI
Stephen Turner (b. 1951) calls some beliefs convenient. A man holds them because they pay. They serve his position, flatter his coalition, and cost nothing to keep. Evidence did not put them there, so evidence cannot pull them out. Run … Continue reading
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‘The “Good bad theory” case in emotion analytics: AI’s potential and limits for social theory’
This 2026 paper by Andrey V. Rezaev and Natalia D. Tregubova says: Stephen Turner presented, in a quite different sense, the term “good bad theory” in his book Explaining the Normative (2010). He uses the term to characterize common sense … Continue reading
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Why Do LLMs Capitalize ‘Black’ But Not ‘White’?
Claude says: Convention, not conviction. The Associated Press and most major outlets capitalized Black as a proper noun referring to a cultural and ethnic identity while leaving white lowercase on the grounds that white Americans lack the same shared historical … Continue reading
The Experts Are Back in Charge. Should We Trust Them?
Philosopher Dan Williams makes a strong case for AI as a technocratising force, but his argument rests on an assumption that Stephen Turner’s epistemic coercion framework immediately destabilizes: that expert consensus is a reasonable proxy for truth, and that nudging … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for CEO Coaching Authority
Leaders and researchers in the AI industry do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking technical, ethical, and civilizational languages that frame their claims as fidelity to safe AGI development, loyalty to accelerating human … Continue reading
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How much can AI codify local knowledge that was previously tacit and inalienable?
Claude says: Local knowledge, in the classic sense Michael Polanyi described, is the kind you carry in your hands or your gut. A master glassblower knows when the gather is ready not because he reads a temperature gauge but because … Continue reading
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AI & Operation Epic Fury
Often when I start a conversation with a leading AI chatbot (I subscribe to Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude) about the Iran War, they tell me that Operation Epic Fury is a fiction and they deny there is any war … Continue reading
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How Come There Are Only AI Objections (Anthropic, Google, etc) When America & Israel Use AI But Not When Ukraine Does?
Ben Van Roo writes: In 2018, Google walked away from a key AI contract, Project Maven, under employee pressure. I was furious at the double standard then. Social media and crypto were reshaping society in ways that dwarfed anything Maven … Continue reading
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Why Do AI Chatbots Crawl My Site Constantly?
Gemini says: AI chatbots and their underlying models crawl your site to absorb and use your writing in several ways. The frequency of these visits is often higher than traditional search engines because AI models have different goals. 1. Training … Continue reading
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